Hacker Trends › “ethereum” trend
“Ethereum” was mentioned 28,539 times on Hacker News between 2014 and 2026, peaking in Jun 2017 with 899 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “ethereum” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
Ethereum first appears in 2014, around its launch, and totals 28,539 lifetime mentions. The curve peaks in June 2017 with 899 mentions, during that year’s ICO and crypto boom.
A large share of top discussion concerns the move to proof-of-stake: threads on the Merge being done and projections that it would cut energy use by roughly 99.95%, alongside explainers and the Ethereum 2.0 launch. The term stayed active through 2026.